Bowling apparatus.



D. H. TALBERT, C. SHAW, J. I. HOLGOMB Jr. J. F. HOKE, JR.

BOWLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3,1009.

Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

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BOWLING APPARATUS.

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BOWLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1900.

Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

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IV/TNESSES:

D. H. TALBERT, G. SHAW, J. I. HOLGOMB & J. F. HOKE, JR.

BOWLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION IILED JUNE 3, 1909.

Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

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APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 3, 1009.

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To all whom it may concem.'.-

Be it known that we, DANIEL H. Tamnn'r CLAUDE SHAW, JAMEs I. Hoacoma, an

county of-Marion, an State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Bowling Apparatus; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,-refe1ence had; to the accompanyingdrawings, in which like let'- tersrefer to like arts.

The object of t is 'invention is to provide a game apparatus which -is provided with alley pins similar in appearance and location to the pins of ordinary bowl' alleys. In other words,this device is a sma l'bowling alley with the pins mounted on a frame instead of being loose and independent of everything, as in ordinary bowling alleys.

In carryin out said invention the frame is so arrang that the alley will be positioned as in ordinary bow mg alleys, and yet. each of them is pivotally connected with said frame so as to be independently actuated by a rolling ball, and when actuated, turns from a vertical to a horizontal position and is held in that horizontal position until reset. All of the pins which have been actuated are simultaneously reset. or. returned to a vertical position. The resetting is efi'ected by means of a hand lever located at the front end of the apparatus.

In View of the force with which the balls will be thrown in such apparatus, the back thereof is mounted so as to be yieldin and the bottom arranged so the ball wi roll from the back down into the return trough. The full nature of this invention will be understood from the following description and claims and the accompanymg drawings. Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apps. ratns centrall broken away and showing a 8 been thrown. Fig. 2. is a side elevation of a portion of the means for resetting. the pins, showing the same in normal position. Fig. 3 is the same after it has been actuated. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the rear end'of the apparatus or alloy, the forward portion being broken away. 5 is a plan View of the same with the pins and resetting means and associated parts removed. Fig. 6 -\is a vertical section of Fig. 4, the actuated end of the buffer plate at the back being shown by dotted lines.

Fig. 7 is a plan view of a portion of the pin resetting means. Fig. 8 is a section on the line 8+8 of Fig. 7 showing the parts in their jnormal position. Fig. 9 IS the same show- :ing the actuating position thereof. 1 Fig. 10 shows a portion of Fi 6 on a large scale .the normal position 0 the alley pin bein shown by full lines, and the actuated 031- tion of t pin being shown by dotted lines. ;Fig. 11 is a side elevation of a forward in in its actuated position. Fig. 12 is a p an 'view of what appears in Fig. 11.

The ball course, alley or platform 15, over which the balls 16 are rolled, is mounted upon legs 17 elevated above the floor and has the usual side troughs 18. The return trough 19 is located below the alley 15 and inclined from the rearto the front. At the front end ofthe alley there is a post 20 and a resetting lever 21 pivoted thereto which resets the'mechanism at the rear through the instrumentality of the connecting rod 22 andmeans hereafter explained.

The alley pins 25 are formed like ordinary bowling alley pins excepting that the lowerrear half thereof is cutaway to enable them to operate as hereafter explained;

with lateral bars 29, the bars 28 and 29 I forming a substantiall A-shaped, frame with the rear end .of sai frame at each side fastened to the post 50, and the front end secured and held in place by bars 131 seoured thereto and extending laterall and turned down and fastened to the si es of the alley near the troughs 18. The alley pins are mounted on the lateral bars of the A-shaped frame so as to be in the same positions the alley pins usuallyoccupy in ordinary bowling alleys, there being one pin mounted on the front cross bar 28, two on the next cross bar to the rear, three on the third cross bar, and four on the fourth cross bar.

The alley pins 25 are pivoted near their center of gravity, so that they are easy to operate, and are held vertical by a spring plate 31, which is secured to the rear upper surface of each pin, and itslower end bears :against the rear edge of the plate 37 coninected with the cross bar 28. Said spring plate 31 is held in place by a pair of guide spring plate 31 to the horizontal position,

so that the notch 33 in the rear end thereof will receive and be engaged by the stop pin 34 in the rock shaft 35 extending transversely of the device, and mounted at one end in bearing 36 connected with the rear cross bar 28, and'at the other end in the post 50 secured to one side of the alley.

Therefore, the pin 34 coiiperatin with the spring, plate 31 maintains the alley pin in its horizontal position.

The device is provided with buffers 38 se- 3 cured to arms 39 and 40 connected with the cross bars 28. The upper ends of the alley pins strike on the buffers 38 on the arms 39 extending downwardly'and rearwardly from the cross bars 28 in front of said pins, see

upper side of said arms 39. The lower ends of all the alley pins mounted on the cross bars 28 strike the buffers 38 on the under side of the arms 40 projecting forwardly from said cross bars 28. The ears 27 extend downwardly from the bars 28 so as to give the alley pins opportunity to move to the horizontal positions without engaging the cross bars 28, and that. is one reason why the rear lower portions of the alley pins are w and rod 22.

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The alley pins are returned to their ver-' tical positions by actuatin the lever 21 Sald rod at'1ts rear end is ivoted to the lower end of a lever 45, which is fulcrumed between its ends at 46 to the side of the alley 15. A connecting bar 47 connects the upper end of said lever 45 to the lower end of a crank 48, which is secured on the rear rock shaft 35. There are rock shafts 35 mounted in connection with each bar 28. The rear rock shaft 35 is the actuating rock shaft and power is transmitted to it originally from the lever 21, and from I it power is transmitted to the arms 51 eX- tending upwardly from each rock shaft 35' and connected by a bar 52. Each rock shaft 35 has'a finger 54 which is located opposite each alley pin and normally extending rearwardly, so that when the rock shafts are operated, said alley pins will be turned to a vertical position, and the reverse operation of the lever 21 will return the resetting means to the full line position shown in Fig. 10. The plate 37, as shown in Fig. 7 has a slot 69in it to permit the operation of the-pin 34. The cross bars 28, side bars 29, plates 37, buffer plates 39 and 40, and ears 27 are all formed integrally in one solid The halls, after they have passed the alley pins, strike a buffer 60 suspended from the top 61 of the device at the rear end, see-Fig. 6, which breaks the force of the Figs. 5 and 10, so that the bufiers are on the bottom, respectively, of the frame.

ball, and then the'ball passes on and strikes the back 62, which is padded. This back is arranged so that it will yield rearwardl under the impact of the ball, it being slid ably mounted on pins 63 at its upper ends that extend rearwardly from the s de wall 64 of the-frame, and it is held from moving too. -farxrearwardly by the spring 65 both at the top and the bottom, the inner ends of said sprlngs'being fastened to the top and The actuated position'of said back 62 is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6. There is a straight pad '66 on each side wall ofthe structure at the rear end, and also a lower pad 67 arranged inclined downwardly toward the front so as to discharge the balls away forwardly from the back upon the end of the return trough" l9.

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An amusement apparatus of the kind described including a ball course, alley pins, means above the rear part of the ball course on which said alley pins are pivotally mounted in transverse rows with the lower ends normally extending downward to a point near the ball course and the alley pins in the adjacent rows being in staggered position relative to each other, means for stopping and holding said alley pins when moved by a ball one-fourth ofa revolution, a longitudinally moving resetting bar beside the rows of alley pins, and means actuated by the movement of said resetting bar for simultaneously resetting the alley pins which have been actuated.

2. An amusement apparatus of the kind described including a ball course, a transverse bar above the rear part of the ball course, ears extending forwardly and downwardly from said transverse bar, alley pins pivoted between their ends in said ears, a sprlng plate secured to the rear surface of the upper end of each pin that is frictionally ;in engagement with the transverse bar for 'holding the pin normally vertical, and a releasable stop for engaging the rear end of said spring when the alley pin is in the horizontal position for holding it in that position until reset. I

3. An amusement apparatus'of the kind described including a ball course, a trans- .verse bar above the rear part of the ball course, ears extending forwardly and downwardly from said transverse bar, alley pins pivoted between their ends in said ears, a spring plate secured to the rear surface of the upper end of each pin with a notchin the other end thereof, a guide mounted on the pin engaging each side of said spring, a rock shaft mounted at the rear of said transverse bar, and a pin secured in said rock shaft behind each alley pin in position to engage the rear end of said spring when the alle pin is in the horizontal position for hol ing it that position.

4. An amusement ap aratus of the kind described including a all course, a plurality of transverse barsabove the rear art of the ball course one in front of anot er, ears extending forwardly and downwardly from said transverse bars, alley pins pivoted between the ends of said ears, a spring plate secured to the rear surface of the upper end of each alley pin, a rock shaft mounted behind and parallel with each transverse bar, a pin extending from said rock shaft adapt ed to engage the rear end of said spring plate when the alley pin is moved to a horizontal position and hold it in that position, fingers extending rearwardly from said rock shaft in position to engage the lower part of the al ey pins when the rock shaft is actuated, and means for simultaneously actuating all of said rock shafts for releasing said alley pin holding means and returning the alley pins to their vertical positions.

5. An amusement apparatus of the kind described including a ball course, alley pins,

edibehind each cross when turned to a horizontal position for holding them in that position, and means for releasing said holding means for all of the alley pins which have been struck.

6. An amusement apparatus of the kind described including a ball course transverse bars over the rear portion of the pins pivotally mounted in a vertical position on said bars so as to be moved to a horizontal position when struck, means for catching said pins when struck to hold them in a horizontal position a rock shaft mountbar, arms extending therefrom for engagin the alley pins and returning them to thelr vertical position,

arms extending upwardly from said rock shafts, means for releasing each of said catches, and a connecting rod extending from each of said arms to said releasing means for operating the latter.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto affixed our signatures 1n the presence of the witnesses herein named.

DANIEL H. TALBERT. CLAUDE SHAW. JAMES I. HOLCOMB. JACOB F. HQKE, JR.

Witnesses:

G. H. Bomx, O. M. MCLAUGHLIN.

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